...and deportation forced the first two migrant workers to commit suicide
Facing a hard “choice” between “voluntary” departure and forced deportation, at least two migrant workers committed suicide.
A 31-year-old migrant worker from Sri Lanka, Chiran Tharaka, committed suicide Tuesday at 7.30 pm by jumping into an oncoming subway train at a subway station in Songnam, Gyeonggi-do (province).
Riton, another migrant worker from Bangladesh also took his own life Wednesday by hanging himself at his own workplace in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do. At 7.55 am his co-workers found him.
We, ETU-MB, hold the South Korean government full responsible for death of both migrant workers! The death of both shows us how criminal are government’s plans for manhunt and deportation beginning of coming Monday!
“With as many as 130,000 migrant workers waiting to be deported to their home countries”, Korea Times wrote for its today’s edition, there are many among them not willing to wait.
They just want to fight against South Korean government’s policy of planned manhunt and deportation. Members of ETU-MB promised on the last large demonstration before yesterday in Seoul that nobody will be able to stop them to fight for our rights as human being and worker. “Never we will give up our demands for legalization for all migrant workers in South Korea”, Kabir Uddin said recently.
South Korean government should better listen to us, before they are getting a big surprise.
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comrades in solidarity with our struggle 
